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January 30, 2004 Issue #020 Family Business Experts

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In This Issue...

1. Our Managing Director Announces -

2. Business first family...Family first business

Parenting Adult Children

3. Best Practices

Self Help

4. Around the Family Business Experts web sites

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SPONSOR MESSAGE #1

1. Our Managing Director Announces -

We start the New Year with change on several fronts.

Our Self Help section is launched and will be expanded during the year. Parenting Adult Children is featured in this Issue, and is a fascinating look at a subject that many of us think ends when are children leave their teenage years!

We had previously announced that Starting Online Business would be revamped and moved to another site. That move is well underway, and the new site is rapidly climbing in popularity. Check it out and see the exciting new way we cover this topic.

Don Schwerzler, Managing Director
Family Business Experts

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SPONSOR MESSAGE #2

2. Business first family...Family first business:

Parenting Adult Children

Parenting adult children is still about handling change - their change as well as ours.

Take an interesting decade-by decade look...

• Terrible 20s [Exploration]
• Settling 30s [Nesting]
• Questioning 40s [Break Out]

1. Their Goals
2. Your Goals in Parenting Adult Children
3. What to Provide
4. What to Withhold
5. What to Keep
6. What to Accept
7. Dealing with In-laws

A fascinating insight in just a few minutes of reading!

Parenting Adult Children

More businesses than ever are using the Internet to reach local markets. If your business isn't one of them, you're going to be left behind.

Local Business Online

SPONSOR MESSAGE #3

Self Help

We have launched a full section that will expand over the coming months. Our objective with this section is to focus on various topics as they relate to families and family business.

Review Personal Financial Budgets, Family Business Histories, and Using Ghost Writers...

Read the new Parenting Adult Children...

Watch in the coming weeks for features on Leadership and Organization...

And we'll have one of our experts tackle the perennially tough topic of Nepotism, which has been reviled and cast in a negative light but can often be a very positive force!

Self Help

4. Around the Family Business Experts web sites

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There are new articles accessible from this page on the left side navigation bar.

Check out our whole new Self Help section, including Parenting Adult Children.

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